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A. A. and submarine lookout, Red Sea
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Maker: Dargie, William
Ack Ack and submarine lookout, Red Sea. The sketch was completed during Dargie's voyage to Australia aboard the HMT "Felix Roussel". This was a Free French ship which, in company of the US ship "Holb...ART23898
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Ack-Ack pit
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Maker: Hele, Ivor
A Bren Gun crew on the look-out for enemy aircraft in an Ack-Ack pit in Libya. The anti-aircraft gun is a Bren Light Machine Gun (LMG).ART21911
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Airman in nose turret of Liberator
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Maker: Dargie, William
This is the Emerson electrically operated power turret, fitted with two 0.5 inch Browning machine gun. In the sketch the airman can be seen through the sections of bullet resistant glass, which, toget...ART21048
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"Ammunition." and remember bonds buy bullets.
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Maker: Lynch, Vincent Division of Pictorial Publicity Ketterlinus
United States First World War poster promoting the sale of War Bonds. It features an image of a soldier with a rifle, machine gun and empty ammunition boxes, at the front, reaching out toward the vie...ARTV00838
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Astrolobe Bay
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Maker: Belcher, Douglas Leonard
An Australian soldier is depicted sitting down, with a cigarette in hand, overlooking a view of Astrolobe Bay with mountains in the background. A machine gun can be seen propped up on rocks beside him...ART28247
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Australian soldier carrying an F1 sub-machine gun
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Maker: Fletcher, Bruce
Australian soldier carrying an F1 sub-machine gun. This type of gun was first issued to Australian troops in 1966.ART40546
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Australian soldier carrying an F1 submachine gun
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Maker: Fletcher, Bruce
Australian soldier carrying an F1 sub-machine gun. This type of gun was first issued by Australian troops in 1966.ART40547
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Bantams: men may be accepted for service with infantry units with a minimum measurement of 5 feet...
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Maker: State Recruiting Committee of Victoria Mullett, Albert J
Australian First World War recruitment poster issued by the State Recruiting Committee of Victoria in 1917 urging ' Bantams' to enlist following the reduction of height restrictions for entry into the...ARTV04967
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Barum village
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Maker: Belcher, Douglas Leonard
Depicts three native huts amidst a shroud of palm trees at Barum, on the coast near Bogadjim. A soldier with a machine gun can be seen in the foreground, and three other soldiers stand in the middle g...ART28241
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Bombing of Darwin
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Maker: Wanji Wanji, Susan
The presence of planes and the bombing of Darwin came as a shock to many Tiwi Islanders and it is an event which still has resonance today through traditional songs and dance. Originally from Maningri...AWM2016.251.2
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Bren gunner
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Maker: Hele, Ivor
An Australian soldier from the 3rd Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment, operating a Bren gun, as part of a Bren gun team, in Korea. The soldiers are wearing 'pile' caps (American cold-weather hats).ART40391
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50 calibre machine guns inside bunker, Quang Tri Province, Vietnam
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Maker: Fletcher, Bruce
Sandbagged machine-gun bunkers with 50 calibre machine guns around the perimeter of the Australian Army Training Team (AATTV)'s compound south of the de-militarized zone.ART40530
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Camouflaged gun position
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Maker: Ashton, Richard
Camouflaged machine gun position of the training wing at Georges Heights, Sydney. On the verso is a charcoal sketch of a truck.ART23683
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Captured German Heavy Machine Gun
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Maker: Williamson, Garnet Angus
A captured German heavy machine gun which was being used the the Australians as an anti-aircraft gun.ART03565
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Chester Wilmot
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Maker: Ashton, Richard
A portrait of possibly Chester Wilmot, a war correspondent. verso: Sketches of Japanese insignia and a 96 Brent type Light Machine GunART29947
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Coastal Patrol between Lae & Finschafen
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Maker: Mainwaring, Geoffrey
Showing Lae burning in the distance. Seen from P.T Boat 143, on the night of the landing by 9th Australian Division at Lae, whilst operating in the Huon Gulf area. The skipper of the P.T Boat is Lieut...ART22144
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Corporal Sydney James McLaughlan
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Maker: Hele, Ivor
Standing portrait of 2/4002 Corporal James McLaughlan, 3 Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment, Commonwealth Division, carrying an Owen sub-machine gun, Jamestown Line Area, Korea. The number 2 before ...ART40368
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Digger cleaning M60 rounds, B Company, 2 Battalion Royal Australian Regiment
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Maker: McFadyen, Ken
An Australian soldier from 'B' Company, 2 Battalion Royal Australian Regiment, is shown cleaning M60 rounds after blowing up a large Viet Cong complex during Operation Kenmore, Xuyen Moc district, Ph...ART40651
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Digger in captured Italian strongpoint
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Maker: Hele, Ivor
Australian digger manning an Italian Breda machine gun in a captured Italian stronghold.ART26207
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Diggers sitting on armoured personnel carrier on patrol, Phuoc Tuy Province
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Maker: McFadyen, Ken
Two Australian soldiers with machine guns sitting on an armoured personnel carrier (APC), setting out on patrol in Phuoc Tuy Province, Vietnam.ART40670
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Enemy machine-gun position
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Depicts the German machine gun position after its capture by the 1st Brigade AIF near Templeux-le-Guerard. Two German machine gunners lie dead near a damaged and dismantled Maxim machine gun with sled...ART03379
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Exhausted digger (Private Colin Wright)
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Maker: Fletcher, Bruce
Portrait of Private Colin Raymond Wright, 'D' Company, 7 Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment 3788774 , on patrol, wet and muddy, carrying a Colt M16 A1 rifle (erroneously called 'Armalite').ART40555
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Feed the guns with war bonds and help to end the war
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Maker: Thomas, Samuel Herbert National War Savings Committee Grosvenor Press Ltd.
British First World War poster issued by the National War Savings Committee to promote the sale of war bonds. It features a image of 3 British infantrymen in the upper left corner. One is standing whi...ARTV00974
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F1 gunner
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Maker: McFadyen, Ken
Australian machine gunner carrying an F1 sub-machine gun, lying on the ground ready to fire.ART40750
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German machine-gun outpost near Proyart
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Depicts a German machine gun post near Proyart, after its capture. There are camp remnants scattered around, helmets, rifles, satchels. In the distance are bombardments with smoke rising and explosion...ART03380
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Give'em both barrels...
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Maker: Carlu, Jean Georges Division of Information, Office for Emergency Management U S Government printing office
This is a sophisticated poster design by French artist Jean Carlu (1900-1997), who was working in the United States during the Second World War. The poster economically makes clear visual links betwee...ARTV06578
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Going to ground, Nui Dat, Vietnam
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Maker: Fletcher, Bruce
Portrait of 2782216 Private Peter Julian Jansz, 7th Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment, (7RAR), in Vietnam with a Colt M16 A1 rifle (erroneously called 'Armalite').ART40559
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Help them: keep your war savings pledge
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Maker: Emerson, Casper American Lithographic Company
Depicts an American gun crew armed with war savings stamps for ammunition. Issued by the US Treasury Department, it emplores the American population to contribute to the war effort by buying more war ...ARTV00009
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Insertion
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Maker: McFadyen, Ken
Depicts several Australian soldiers leaving an Iroquois UH-1H helicopter flown by members of 9 Squadron RAAF in Vietnam. The soldiers are carrying F1 sub machine guns while the door gunner is holding...ART40741
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Kenneth William Walker, SMN CD
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Maker: Miller, Lewis
A seated portrait of Kenneth William Walker, SMN CD, right profile, wearing a t-shirt, holding what appears to be a Colt M4 rifle. Lewis Miller was appointed official war artist in April 2003 to docu...ART92011
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Lewis gun mounted near Glisy
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Maker: Streeton, Arthur
A Lewis Light Machine Gun (LMG) is mounted on a makeshift pedestal in a weapon pit surrounded by sandbags at the Battle of Hamel. The gun was used as an anti-aircraft weapon. In the background are ten...ART03501
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LMG [Light Machine Gun] post, AMF [Australian Military Force] post
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Maker: Hinder, Frank
A rough sketch of four soldiers in shorts sandbagging a Light Machine Gun implacement.ART28378.016
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Machine gun bunker, Nui Dat, Vietnam
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Maker: Fletcher, Bruce
Australian soldier from 7 Battalion Royal Australian Regiment (RAR) in a machine gun bunker, Nui Dat, Vietnam, holding a machine gun ready to fire; rubber trees in the background.ART40565
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Machine gunner killed at his post near Foucaucourt
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Depicts a dead machine gunner who had been killed at his post near Foucaucourt. Beside him is a machine gun and at his feet, his helmet. James Fraser Scott's (1877- 1932) official war art is particula...ART03400
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Machine-gunner, Nui Dat, Vietnam
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Maker: Fletcher, Bruce
An Australian from 7 Battalion Royal Australian Regiment in Nui Dat, Vietnam, lying on the ground holding his machine gun ready to fire.ART40623
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Machine gun posts, in jungle, raised on piles above level of flood waters of Maiwara River
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Maker: Dargie, William
The machine gun posts are made of a bamboo structure and have palm leaves creating roofs. Dargie noted, "These weapons had a field of fire covering the approaches to the nearby river. However, this ...ART23171
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Machine gun remains
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Maker: Wilson, Eric
A sketch of a the ruins of a machine gun in front of the German Front Line at Beaumont Hamel in northern France. After being awarded a Travelling Art scholarship in 1937, Eric Wilson studied in Europ...ART28840
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Mad Mike again! (Sergeant Michael Coleridge)
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Maker: Fletcher, Bruce
Portrait of 4410230 Sergeant Michael 'Mad Mike' Coleridge, Vung Tau, Vietnam. Fletcher has painted Coleridge, an Army Public Relations photographer, crouched in the grass with a Bell and Howell Filmo ...ART28506
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75mm Japanese gun
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Maker: Belcher, Douglas Leonard
A sketch of a Japanese 75mm gun found in New Guinea. Ammunition can be seen lying stacked on the ground to the left. Sergeant Belcher, Royal Australian Army Medical Corps attached to Royal Australia...ART28235
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New and destroyed bridge, Peronne
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Maker: McCubbin, Louis Frederick
Watercolour sketch depicting the destroyed bridge at Peronne in the foreground and the new bridge in the background. McCubbin was in Peronne in September 1918. Peronne is near the Somme battlefield a...ART03101
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No 1 gun (possibly Basilisk Battery), Port Moresby
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Maker: Hinder, Frank
Naval gun and predictor at lookout; tree and washing on line in background. This drawing is from a series of eighteen pencil and watercolour sketches of military installations requiring camouflage in ...ART91574
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Nordenfelt gun in action: a sketch on the detached squadron
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Maker: after Julian Rossi Ashton Australasian Sketcher
An nordenfelt gun on deck of a colonial ship is being operated by two sailors. One sailor is to pull the trigger and fire the gun, while the other is to operate a lever allowing the bullets to drop i...ART50170
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Not titled [Soldier holding a rifle]
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Maker: Hinder, Frank
A soldier wearing a protective helmt, and holding a machine gun.ART29324
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Pirates of the Northern Arabian Gulf
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Maker: Gardiner, Mal
A pirate swinging from the mast of the HMAS Darwin. The pirate is pointing a gun out of the image directly at the viewer. The test next to the image of the pirate reads 'HMAS Darwin Op Slipper Nov '0...ART92094
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Private James Molony
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Maker: Fletcher, Bruce
Portrait of 1410882 Private James Patrick Molony from the 7th Battalion Royal Australian Regiment, standing outside his tent at Nui Dat. He is depicted holding a Colt M16 A1 rifle (erroneously called ...ART40556
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Private Kenna winning the V.C.
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Maker: Rowed, Reg
Unfinished oil painting of the action that resulted in Private Edward (Ted) Kenna receiving the Victoria Cross. On 15 May 1945, Kenna was involved in an action near Wewak, New Guinea, during which he ...ART26188
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Radio checking on a General Grant tank
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Maker: Browning, George Julian
Depicts a radio technician inspecting the wiring of a short range aerial adaptor on the turret of the tank. The picture shows the 37mm machine gun mounted side by side in the turret.ART25313
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Relaxing before General Cosgrove arrives
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Maker: Miller, Lewis
Depicts a member of the Australian SAS relaxing before the arrival of General Cosgrove in Al Asad. Lewis Miller was appointed official war artist in April 2003 to document Australia's involvement in t...ART92014
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Sandbag position, Komoro Airport, Dili
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Maker: Amor, Rick
Depicts an Australian soldier sitting in a sandbag position with the Minimi (Light Support Weapon) at the ready at Komoro Airport, Dili, East Timor. This work reveals much about the mundane, everyday ...ART91051
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Sars-Poteries [The Quartermaster's store]
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Maker: Gould, Charles Henry
Depicts two soldiers dividing up rations for the 6th Battalion in the Quartermaster's store, which was situated in a few rooms of a deserted French chateau in Sars-Poteries. Pictured is a German machi...ART02562.006
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[Soldier holding machine gun and wearing a pack]
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Maker: Pidgeon, William Edwin (WEP)
Depicts a crouching soldier holding a rifle and wearing a pack on his back. William Edwin Pidgeon (1909-1981), known as 'WEP' was a war correspondent, painter, cartoonist and illustrator. During the S...ART96688
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Soldiers in trench study for No 238 [ART22251]
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Maker: Dargie, William
Sketch of three soldiers in a trench with machine guns peering over the top of the sandbags. This work is a preparatory study for the final painting, '2/32 Battalion holding German counter-attack, El...ART26202
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Soldier using machine gun
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Maker: Fletcher, Bruce
Seated soldier, stripped to the waist, with an M60 machine gun, ready to fire.ART40611
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Stop bloody whingein'
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Maker: Faulkner, Bob
Cartoon of an Australian gunner lying on the ground, nervously firing off a round from his machine gun as enemy bullets speed towards him. His untroubled mate is leaning over his shoulder, saying "Sto...ART92875
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Study for gunner firing machine gun
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Maker: Ashton, Richard
A gunner is depicted operating a Vickers machine gun - with a water cooler and sight attached, and an ammunition belt. The soldier is possibly from the United States Army as indicated by his uniform a...ART29953
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Study for 'Urban destruction' (Private Cameron Simpson standing by a burnt out building, Dili)
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Maker: Amor, Rick
Portrait of Private Cameron Simpson standing in right profile. The drawing is a study for 'Urban destruction (Private Cameron Simpson standing near a burnt-out building) (ART91106).ART91065
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Taking Chances
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Maker: Unknown Social Hygiene Division
Venereal disease prevention poster, presumably the ninth page of a book that has been torn out. Two black and white illustrations accompany the text - the one in the upper left corner is a soldier man...ARTV07536
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Team work
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Maker: General Motors Holden
This Australian Second World War poster was created by General Motors Holden (GMH), likely for display in one of their Australian factories. This poster was aimed to illustrate the importance of mun...ARTV02153
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4th Division Artillery and Infantry moving into battle
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A column of Australian infantrymen and artillery wagons crowd a road leading into a battlefield on the Western Front. The battle is clearly already in action, with a tank moving into position as explo...ART03406
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The forward scout (Private Robert 'Bob' Schaeche)
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Maker: Fletcher, Bruce
Portrait of forward scout Private Robert 'Bob' William Schaeche, 3787485, of the 11th Platoon, 7th Battalion Royal Australian Regiment, in Vietnam.ART40553
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The trumpet calls
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Maker: Lindsay, Norman W. A. Gullick, Government Printers
A soldier sounds his bugle for assistance on the front line while civilians listen in the background. Norman Lindsay (1879-1969) was a painter, draughtsman, illustrator, cartoonist, printmaker, writer...ARTV00039
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The unknown soldier: all quiet on the western front
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Maker: de Kessler, Thomas
A faceless man (numbers instead of facial features) standing before a background of stars (or explosions).ART91462
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The War of Munitions, How Great Britain has mobilised her industries.
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Maker: G.K Unknown Unknown
British First World War poster issued to illustrate the success of industrial mobilisation. The title is separate and positioned across the top, in black and red. Fourteen separate images make up the ...ARTV00305
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This vacation visit beautiful VIETNAM
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Maker: Pandora productions
American anti-war poster in the form of a satirical travel poster. It shows two caricatured American soldiers advancing amidst bomb blasts with military and civilian planes flying overhead. The slogan...ARTV10420
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10th Machine Gun Company Headquarters
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Depicts a view into the entrance of the 10th Machine Gun Company Headquarters on the Western Front, with duckboards, barbed wire and debris in front of it, in a war damaged landscape. Dyson wrote that...ART09926
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Two soldiers in trench with Lewis gun
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Maker: Bryant, Charles
Depicts two Australian soldiers, one who is smoking a pipe, standing in a trench near a gun mount with a Lewis gun, during the First World War. Charles Bryant had some early art lessons before beginni...ART00161
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Ultimo Crater
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Maker: Bryant, Charles
Depicts the Ultimo Crater and war damaged landscape at Messines, Belgium on the Western Front during the First World War. It is mentioned in Charles Bean, `Official History of Australia in the war of ...ART00180
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Vietnamese women's visit
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Maker: Martin, Mandy C Ancone Martin, Mandy
A Vietnamese woman walking through a field , carrying a machine gun on her shoulder. The accompanying text on the poster advertises a visit to Australia by a delegation of Vietnamese women and appeals...ARTV07367
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With the machine guns
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Maker: Barker, David Crothers
Depicts a figure of a digger crouched behind a machine gun, aiming at an aircraft in the sky above. This work was used to illustrate a written work by NWH Beaven. The illustration appeared in 'The Kia...ART94675
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Zero hour (8th August, 1918)
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Maker: Bowles, Leslie
Three infantrymen, depicting the neat, tidy, steady-going, public school boy; the tall, rangy, country lad; and the hard, industrial, larrikin 'Ginger Mick' type. The central figure is carrying a Lewi...ART12504
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Zero trouble over Lae (Pilot Officer Harold Burn)
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Maker: Hodgkinson, Roy
Depicts Pilot Officer Harold Burn (service number 401025) operating the twin .303 Browning machine gun, in first gunner position on an aircraft. The first gunner also operates the wireless, transmitti...ART21710